Introduce Your Child to New Teachers and Providers with an All About Me & IEP Summary

To give teachers and service providers a head start, we recommend creating an introductory "All About Me" document with a vision statement that outlines what your child needs for success. This will help your child’s care team get to know their strengths, interests, and goals as well as your (and their!) vision for their future. A vision statement can help the adults in your child’s life focus on long-term goals that can shape your child’s current learning objectives.

In your All About Me, it’s a good idea to include which strategies work for your child and which ones don’t. For example, if your child is overwhelmed by having too many words on a single page, it will be beneficial for the teacher to know this so they can break the work down into smaller chunks. Knowing your child’s interests means the IEP team has an inside view on how to make therapy and work sessions more engaging for them, and therefore more productive.

By creating and sharing a document with this information, your child’s teachers, school-based therapists, and IEP team have the opportunity to see them as the whole, unique child that they are. It can be helpful to provide a copy to every adult your child will be working with during the school year.

An IEP summary can include your child’s diagnosis, services, accommodations, supports, IEP goals, and contact information for the important people on your child’s care team; in other words, it breaks down the essential parts of your child’s IEP into an easy-to-read sheet.

Sharing this information at the beginning of the year can help your child have a more positive, meaningful experience with providers who will be working with them (and may not know them yet). Giving your child’s teachers and service providers a quick overview of their IEP can also help keep them accountable. If you find that their goals and accommodations are not being met, you can use this document to prove that the teacher or provider was aware of the most important provisions of your child’s IEP.

There's a better way to connect with a new teacher than sending a lengthy email! If you're an Undivided member, you can create a printable "All About Me" PDF in just a few clicks by filling out your child's profile in your account. Here's a quick video to show you how it works:

No more starting from scratch with every new teacher, provider, or caregiver. Your Undivided account lets you create one living profile that captures who your child really is — how they're supported, what they're working toward, and what they need to thrive — so the people around them can show up already knowing them. Our updated All About Me tool includes:

• A full introduction of what makes your child unique on a shareable printout
• Customizable sections for what you’d like to include and the level of detail, such as medical needs, current therapies, and emergency contact information
• Option to include support details from their IEP or 504 plan, using Undivided's IEP/504 Assistant. Just attach your most recent document, and let the tool do the rest. You can also choose to exclude sections and details upon preview.

You can create a new version when needed from your child's profile and easily make any updates if details have changed. Every version generated will be saved to your child's digital binder, so you can download and share any time.

If you're looking to create your own All About Me from a printable template, check out it out here as a Google Doc or PDF. Our sample shows you how to create your own All About Me that introduces your child and points out the most important parts of their IEP at a glance.

For a 504 Plan version of the above template, check out this download!